Posted on 11/21/2022 7:47:23 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee” (Proverbs 22:19).
“That thy trust may be in the LORD,” because they are the Lord’s wisdom, they are the Lord’s words.
Now, here is a real interesting thing. If you don’t have the words of the Lord, how can you trust fully in the Lord? This passage says to bow down your ears, hear the words of the wise, keep them within you, that your trust may be in the Lord. Well, if you don’t have the words of the Lord, you just have someone’s opinion on the matter. If we do not have a Bible that men have faithfully translated, no man can truthfully and honestly say that they trust in the Lord one hundred percent.
God has had to provide us, and there again, it was God that did it (in verse 22:12 it is the eyes of the Lord that preserve knowledge), He did it that man could trust in Him. Paul said: “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power” (I Corinthians 2:4-5).
What Paul preached were the words of God’s wisdom. Why? “That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God” (I Corinthians 2:4-5). If a man isn’t preaching the words of God’s wisdom, people have no basis to trust in God. They will be lacking in any kind of real faith. What we see in American Christianity today is a faithless, powerless bunch of people. And it is because they really don’t have the words of God’s wisdom. They are taught that the Bible for the most part is a “good” translation, but not the best, and as a result their faith is shattered.
When Christians have nothing but a faithless Christianity, they reach out to other things such as psychiatry, psychology, education, and philosophy for truths—since it has been destroyed here—so what we see in America is a striving for a so-called “Christian education.” These are purely the result of people that cannot find faith in their Bible. So, they are looking for it somewhere else.
“. . . I have made known to thee this day, even to thee,” we can rest assured that God has made known His Word to us, he has purified it, and He has preserved it.
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